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• Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

  Common

  Artist, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Real, Psychics

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• Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Doubt, Preserves

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

  Rajneesh

  Personality, Individuality, Given

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• We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Renounce, Possession, Possessed

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love Life, Giving, Amusement

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• Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Quiet, Should

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• And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Thinking, Psychics

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• Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loneliness, Two, Solitude

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• To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

  Frederick Buechner

  Forgiveness, Pride, Rights

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 21, 2013

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• Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

  Nancy Mitford

  Children, Waffles, Firsts

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• People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Thinking, People, Should

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• One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Practice, Benefits, Violin

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.

  Sophia Loren

  Encouragement, Couple, Writing

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• In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mother, Creativity, Gestation

  Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”

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• Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

  Edmund Burke

  Enemy, Kind, Resources

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.

  Bill Mollison

  Worry, Design, Looks

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• The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

  Martin Buber

  Quality, Faces, Form

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.16, A&C Black

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• All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Life, Doe, Term

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• In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Childhood

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.816, Hamilton Books

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• You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.

  Claude Monet

  Littles, Might, Helping

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.

  Richard G. Scott

  Adversity, Giving, Trying

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• I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

  Claude Monet

  Sea, Relaxation, Exhausted

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Cooking, Gaps

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• Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.

  Susan Sontag

  Everyday, May, Fantasy

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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